Junior high school student Kiki belongs to a family of five, with her father Kensuke, mother Mayumi, younger brother Ryo, and younger sister Anna. After moving from their former apartment to a housing complex, they had been happy for a time, with Kiki and her mother filling the balcony with flowers. But they lose the emotional bedrock of their family when their mother suddenly dies, changing everything.
Junior high school student Kiki belongs to a family of five, with her father Kensuke, mother Mayumi, younger brother Ryo, and younger sister Anna. After moving from their former apartment to a housing complex, they had been happy for a time, with Kiki and her mother filling the balcony with flowers. But they lose the emotional bedrock of their family when their mother suddenly dies, changing everything.
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles with family problems and has his friendships tested by racism.
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.